Tragic!!! Many burnt to death as bus catches fire on Lagos-Ibadan highway

TopNaija reports that an unconfirmed number of passengers were said to have been burnt to death in an accident that occurred on Thursday night in Ogun State.

It was gathered that the incident happened around 10:20 pm at the Long bridge axis of the Lagos-Ibadan highway, Obafemi/Owode Local Government.

The road crash involved a silver Toyota RAV 4, with registration number, LND 13 GS, a silver Toyota Camry marked, GGE 369 GJ, and a burnt Mazda bus with the unidentified number.

It was gathered that the burnt commercial bus was involved in wrongful overtaking before it hit a stationed faulty vehicle, the Toyota Rav 4, that was parked in the middle of the road.

“In the process, it lost control, somersaulted severally before it burst into flames,” the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) spokesman, Babatunde Akinbiyi, told TopNaija on Friday morning.

Akinbiyi disclosed that many occupants of the bus were burnt beyond recognition, saying three of them sustained burn injuries.

He said TRACE operatives and other security agencies on the ground rescued two victims to the Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre and one other to the General Hospital at Gbagada.

As of the time of filing this report, it can’t be ascertained if the Mazda bus was fully loaded, but a carcass of burnt bodies beyond recognition was noticed at the accident scene.

Meanwhile, the TRACE Corps has sympathized with the family of the dead victims, warning drivers to “desist from speeding, wrongful overtaking and overbearing cum non-challant attitudes that expose other road users to risk and danger.”